Despite both countries requesting to join the Schengen area since 2007, Romania and Bulgaria are still not members and their appeals have all been rejected. The commission has
In order to meet the EU’s climate goals, the European Parliament has recently voted to ban the sale of biofuel made from vegetable oil by 2020. But although
Hundreds of millions of dollars has been invested in gene editing technology. There have been calls for techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 that are used to remove specific parts of
A new ruling by the European Court of Justice has been announced which would require all EU member states to recognise the rights of same sex couples. The
The ban on electric pulses in fishing was originally introduced in 1998. However, after just eight years, it was revoked by the European Commission despite concerns from environmental
The European Union has announced that it’s opposed to the proposed changes to legislation in Israel, which are designed to make it easier to sentence terrorists who commit
Anti-corruption legislation came into force in Romania in 2014, and since then there have been multiple amendments made by the Romanian Government. Concerns over the rule of law
The recent plans to scrap the EU refugee quota scheme are causing divisions between member states, and it’s feared that it could threaten the unity of nations throughout
2017 has been a friendly year to Europe’s far-right, nationalist parties, who are ever growing in central Europe. A topic that would be up for discussion is the
